Lil Durk was cleared of all charges in his murder-for-hire trial, but he will appear in court in 2027 to fight a separate case surrounding racketeering charges. However, his two co-defendants were ultimately convicted on stalking charges while the murder-for-hire charges were dismissed. Now, they’re hoping for either a new trial or an acquittal on those charges, though the feds aren’t allowing that to happen without a fight.
Per All Hip Hop, federal prosecutors requested that U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald that he dismiss the requests from Deandre “DeDe” Wilson and David “Browneyez” Lindsey for an acquittal or a new trial related to the charges surrounding Saviay’a “Lul Pab” Robinson’s killing. The defense tried to explain how the conviction didn’t meet the federal threshold for stalking charges to be upheld, mainly because Pab wasn’t aware that he was being followed.
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Lil Durk's Co-Defendants Fight Back Against Stalking Conviction
The feds fired back, claiming that the acts of DeDe and Browneyez can still show a pattern of conduct and “clearly falls within the scope of the statute.” Furthermore, they pointed to evidence consisting of travel records, witnesses, and phone data that they say show a plot to target Quando Rondo in Los Angeles.
“The evidence proved the conspirators knew Bowman, Robinson, and others were inside the vehicle, and their murder plan involved using a machine gun and other firearms to indiscriminately fire at the victims’ vehicle,” the briefing reads. “This and other evidence presented at trial sufficiently established the conspirators’ intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate everyone inside of the vehicle, including Mr. Robinson.”
The government further pushed back against Browneyez’s issues surrounding the trial itself. His defense argued that there were issues with the jury instructions the judge provided, the inclusion of certain evidence, and having to be tried with other defendants.
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